Water may have played a role in shaping parts of the Martian landscape a billion years longer than previously indicated, according to interpretation of images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Water may have played a role in shaping parts of the Martian landscape a billion years longer than previously indicated, according to interpretation of images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
A new color high-resolution image from the Phoenix Mars Lander shows its crumpled heat shield about 150 meters away from the spacecraft.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has successfully delivered more soil to its Wet Chemistry Laboratory.
NASA has selected a Mars robotic mission that will provide information about the Red Planet's atmosphere, climate history and potential habitability in greater detail than ever before.
Phoenix has photographed several dust devils dancing across the arctic plain this week and sensed a dip in air pressure as one passed near the lander.
NASA astronomers record first-ever observed outburst of the September Perseids.
The next soil sample that Phoenix will deliver to its deck instruments will go to the fourth of the four cells of Phoenix's wet chemistry laboratory, according to the Phoenix team's current plans.
On its way to a 2014 rendezvous with a comet, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft successfully flew past asteroid Steins on Sept. 5. JPL manages NASA's participation in the mission.
› European Space Agency site →09.19.08 - For the first time since July 2001, two shuttles are on the launch pads at the same time at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
09.18.08 - NASA will hold a media teleconference Tuesday, Sept. 23, at 12:30 p.m. EDT, to discuss data from the joint NASA and European Space Agency Ulysses mission that reveals the sun's solar wind is at a 50-year low.
09.15.08 - NASA has selected a Mars robotic mission that will provide information about the Red Planet's atmosphere, climate history and potential habitability in greater detail than ever before.
09.10.08 - Data from satellites and observatories around the globe show a jet from a powerful stellar explosion witnessed March 19 was aimed almost directly at Earth.
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